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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 302, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 19, 2004Dallas County, Rockwall County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2004, 2:23 PM CDT for Dallas County, Rockwall County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 19, 2004, 2:23 PM CDT (19:23 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2004, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Dallas County, TX, Rockwall County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 269 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2004-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1539 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2004-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -24 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1539 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
948 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 19, 11:55 AM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 11:55 AM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1155 AM CDT SAT JUN 19 2004

.AVIATION UPDATE...
OLD BOUNDARIES...OUTFLOWS JUST TO THE NORTH OF THE METROPLEX
AIRPORTS WITH TCU BUILDING JUST TO THE SOUTH ATTM. NO ORGANIZED
PRECIP TO OCCUR TODAY BUT WILL NEED TO INTRODUCE BLANKET TEMPO GROUP
TO COVER RANDOMNESS OF AFTERNOON TSTRM ACTIVITY. TSTRM TO THE NW OF
DFW...IF CONTINUES CURRENT COURSE...WILL ARRIVE NEAR DFW 18Z. AT
PRESENT...MAIN CELL LOOKS TO PASS BY TO THE NORTH OF DFW ITSELF BUT
SATELLITE IMAGE SHOWS DEVELOPING CU TO THE SW OF STORM THAT COULD
DEVELOP INTO TSTRMS AND EFFECT AIRPORTS. 82

&&

.MORNING UPDATE...
1018 AM CDT SAT JUN 19 2004
FRONT STILL SITS UP IN OKLAHOMA. NUMEROUS OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES HAVE
MOVED INTO NORTH TEXAS MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO PREDICT EXACT AREAS
FOR NEW CONVECTION. THUNDERSTORMS ALONG NORTHERN TIER OF COUNTIES
CONTINUE MOVING EAST. CONSIDERABLE CLOUDINESS NORTH OF I20 WILL KEEP
TEMPERATURES DOWN A BIT BUT UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE WILL STILL SUPPORT
CONVECTION. GIVEN ALL THE UNCERTAINTY I HAVE LIKELY POPS ALONG RED
RIVER AND CHANCE EVERYWHERE ELSE. UPDATED PACKAGE OUT SOON.

.PREV AVIATION DISCUSSION...
SHRA/-TSRA BEGINNING TO DEVELOP JUST N OF METRO AIRPORTS SO WILL
START OFF WITH A TEMPO WITH -TSRA FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS. PRECIP
CHANCES WILL LINGER INTO THE AFTERNOON...SO WILL NEED TO KEEP SOME
MENTION OF TSRA FOR MUCH OF THE DAY. CIGS GENERALLY MVFR-VFR FOR
METRO MUCH OF THE NEXT 24 HOURS...EXCEPT IN AND NEAR TSRA. KACT WILL
BE MORE LIKELY TO HAVE MVFR CIGS. LIGHT FLOW WITH FRONTAL BOUNDARY
AROUND. WILL GO WITH A NE-SE MIX OF DIRECTION.

&&

.DISCUSSION ISSUED AT 356 AM...
AN UNSETTLED WEATHER PATTERN WILL REMAIN OVER NORTH TEXAS THE NEXT
SEVERAL DAYS AS LARGE SCALE RIDGE FLATTENS AND SEVERAL WEAK SHORT
WAVES ROTATE THROUGH THE BASE OF A LARGE TROUGH ACROSS THE CENTRAL
U.S. UPPER FLOW WILL BECOME MORE NORTHWESTERLY LATE IN THE WEEK AS
RIDGE WEAKENS AND RETROGRADE WEST AND MEAN TROUGH DEEPENS.

CURRENTLY...A WEAK COLD FRONT IS DRAPED ACROSS THE RED RIVER
COUNTIES AND EXTENDS WESTWARD INTO THE PANHANDLE.  A COMPLEX OF
THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO FIRE OVER THE EASTERN PANHANDLE/LOW
ROLLING PLAINS.  THESE STORMS ARE BUILDING SLOWLY EAST WHILE THE
INDIVIDUAL STORMS MOVE NORTH/NORTHWEST.  EXPECT STORMS TO DEVELOP
INTO THE NORTHWEST COUNTIES IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS AND MOVE ACROSS
THE REMAINDER OF NORTH TEXAS DURING THE DAY.  MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES
AND CAPE WILL BECOME LESS FAVORABLE AS STORMS DEVELOP
EAST...THEREFORE WE WILL KEEP THE HIGHEST POPS IN THE NORTHWEST
TODAY.  HIGH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALES AND WEAK MID AND UPPER LEVEL
WINDS WILL MAKE STORMS TODAY VERY EFFICIENT RAIN PRODUCERS. THE
SEVERE POTENTIAL APPEARS LOW AT THIS TIME DUE TO VERY WEAK SHEAR AND
MARGINAL INSTABILITY.  SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL
LINGER THROUGH THE EVENING.  RAIN CHANCES WILL DECREASE ON SUNDAY AS
THE SURFACE FRONT LIFTS NORTH.  EXPECTED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY AS SHORT WAVE ENERGY
INTERACTS WITH LOW LEVEL MOISTURE.  ANOTHER FRONT IS ALSO FORECAST
TO CROSS THE RED RIVER THURSDAY/FRIDAY WHICH WILL INCREASE RAIN
CHANCES.

AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN IN THE UPPER 80S TO THE MID
90S THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS AND OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL REMAIN IN THE
LOWER AND  MIDDLE 70S.
&&

DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX   91  71  94  75 /  50  30  10   0
WACO, TX   92  71  94  74 /  30  20  10   0
PARIS, TX   89  69  93  73 /  50  40  20  20
DENTON, TX   91  71  94  74 /  50  30  20   0
MCKINNEY, TX   90  70  94  74 /  50  30  20  10
DALLAS, TX   91  71  94  75 /  50  30  10   0
TERRELL, TX   90  70  94  75 /  50  30  20  20
CORSICANA, TX   91  71  94  74 /  50  30  20  20
TEMPLE, TX   92  71  95  73 /  30  20  10   0
&&

.FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...NONE.
&&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 4:22 AM CDT, 10 hours 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
422 AM CDT SAT JUN 19 2004

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-192100-
ANDERSON-BELL-BOSQUE-COLLIN-COMANCHE-COOKE-CORYELL-DALLAS-DELTA-
DENTON-EASTLAND-ELLIS-ERATH-FALLS-FANNIN-FREESTONE-GRAYSON-HAMILTON-
HENDERSON-HILL-HOOD-HOPKINS-HUNT-JACK-JOHNSON-KAUFMAN-LAMAR-LAMPASAS-
LEON-LIMESTONE-MCLENNAN-MILAM-MILLS-MONTAGUE-NAVARRO-PALO PINTO-
PARKER-RAINS-ROBERTSON-ROCKWALL-SOMERVELL-STEPHENS-TARRANT-VAN ZANDT-
WISE-YOUNG-
422 AM CDT SAT JUN 19 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...
SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH
TEXAS TODAY AND TONIGHT. LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE
THE PRIMARY THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
AN UNUSUALLY ACTIVE MID JUNE WEATHER PATTERN WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MOST OF NORTH TEXAS SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED.

In the hours before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 7:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDStephens, Young3 hr
Jun 19, 11:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague54 min
Jun 19, 12:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton, Wise60 min
Jun 19, 1:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Denton, Tarrant56 min
Jun 19, 2:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt56 min
Jun 19, 3:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Kaufman51 min
Jun 19, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt59 min
Jun 19, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.